The 2018 NWHL Draft took place on the 19th and 20 December 2018, the first and only draft in NWHL history to happen while the season was underway. The expansion
Minnesota Whitecaps would take part in the draft for the first time.
A total of 30 players were drafted, of which twenty were American, four were Canadian, and one was Swedish. Four players were drafted from
Boston College
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, along with three each from
Merrimack College
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,
Colgate University
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, and the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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.
The 2018 draft was the first draft in NWHL history not to see a goaltender selected in the first two rounds, and the first to see an
NCAA
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Division III player selected.
Format
There was five rounds, with each team having one pick in each and having 90 seconds to make that pick. Draft order was decided using each team's winning percentage in the first half of the season, with goal difference being the tiebreaker. The final draft order was:
# Metropolitan Riveters
# Connecticut Whale
# Buffalo Beauts
# Minnesota Whitecaps
# Boston Pride
Players who were drafted were not guaranteed to sign with the team that drafted them.
Results
References
Premier Hockey Federation
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